Latest / Financial Survival Network / Trump GPT Takes the Fed - Parag Amin #6299
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- 0:00Speaker 1: There's almost no doubt that Pal's going to be out
- 0:02Speaker 1: when his time is up, and he's realistically not going
- 0:07Speaker 1: to be reappointed. President Trump has really made no secret
- 0:10Speaker 1: about that, and I think President Trump would fire him
- 0:12Speaker 1: if he could, but he can't. So this is why
- 0:15Speaker 1: he's doing what he believes is the next best thing
- 0:17Speaker 1: and looking at shadow fed chairs.
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- 0:47Speaker 3: And welcome.
- 0:48Speaker 4: You are listening to and watching the Financial Survival Network.
- 0:51Speaker 3: I'm your host Carrie Lutz.
- 0:53Speaker 4: And well, we know there's a big stink that's been
- 0:57Speaker 4: going on between the President and chair Jerome Powell. Has
- 1:02Speaker 4: he outlived his usefulness? Is he on his way out?
- 1:07Speaker 4: What's the real story here? Well, Paragh el Amin is
- 1:12Speaker 4: with us now an attorney and well you can find
- 1:16Speaker 4: him at lawpla dot com.
- 1:19Speaker 3: Parukh great to have you on the show.
- 1:21Speaker 4: So you're an attorney, but obviously interested in economics and
- 1:27Speaker 4: economic policy here. What's your take on what's going on
- 1:30Speaker 4: with the FED?
- 1:32Speaker 1: That's right, Kerrie, and I've got a background in finance.
- 1:34Speaker 1: I mean, in terms of what's going on in the FED.
- 1:36Speaker 1: This is something we've seen which is classic President Trump style,
- 1:40Speaker 1: which is he's running the government more like Trump organization
- 1:44Speaker 1: than as the president. And what I mean by that
- 1:47Speaker 1: is President Trump is very used to having a lot
- 1:50Speaker 1: of control over his organization and decision making ability, and
- 1:54Speaker 1: I think we've seen time and time again where he
- 1:56Speaker 1: gets frustrated when other people aren't doing what he wants
- 2:01Speaker 1: them to do. And that's what we're seeing here with
- 2:04Speaker 1: Jerome Powell and President Trump hinting at the fact that
- 2:08Speaker 1: he may end up appointing a shadow FED chair, which
- 2:12Speaker 1: is unprecedented, We've never seen anything like that before, but
- 2:16Speaker 1: all because he doesn't really like the fact that Jerome
- 2:20Speaker 1: Powell is continuing to allow higher interest rates than President
- 2:25Speaker 1: Trump would like.
- 2:26Speaker 3: Right.
- 2:27Speaker 4: So I have a theory that this is the first
- 2:29Speaker 4: AI driven administration in history. All the policies coming down,
- 2:35Speaker 4: whether it's immigration, legal policies, economic, it's all.
- 2:39Speaker 3: Driven by AI.
- 2:41Speaker 4: And if in fact it is what do you think
- 2:45Speaker 4: the AI is pointing to in terms of monetary policy.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Well, that's an interesting theory. I haven't heard that before, Carrie.
- 2:54Speaker 1: So to clarify what you're saying and asking, are you
- 2:58Speaker 1: saying that you believe that the Trump administration is using
- 3:02Speaker 1: literally AI to help come up with its policies.
- 3:06Speaker 3: Oh, there's no question in my mind.
- 3:07Speaker 4: I call it Trump GPT, and having used AI pretty
- 3:14Speaker 4: extensively for the past three years, I can just pick
- 3:16Speaker 4: up the patterns and such like. For instance, you know
- 3:20Speaker 4: as an attorney that to drift an executive order, it's
- 3:24Speaker 4: not just the thing where you just write it out.
- 3:27Speaker 4: A lot of research, memorandums have to be done. Every
- 3:30Speaker 4: law that's on the books has to be run through
- 3:34Speaker 4: to make sure that you're not conflicting with the law,
- 3:37Speaker 4: constitutional aspects, all these things, and the fact that he
- 3:42Speaker 4: had so many of them literally ready the moment he
- 3:46Speaker 4: took his hand off the Bible and was sworn in,
- 3:50Speaker 4: he was signing executive orders. And there's two reasons why
- 3:54Speaker 4: I know that this is AI driven. Number one is
- 3:58Speaker 4: the secrecy he knew about this, which means there's a
- 4:01Speaker 4: very small core group that's responsible for this and to
- 4:08Speaker 4: have a law firm do it could take months, years,
- 4:13Speaker 4: dozens of.
- 4:13Speaker 3: Lawyers running around, running up hours.
- 4:17Speaker 4: Not to say that lawyers haven't reviewed it, but that
- 4:21Speaker 4: the core of it probably is AI generated. And then
- 4:25Speaker 4: just pattern recognition where I can see AI rearing its head,
- 4:30Speaker 4: where just certain certain things that happen.
- 4:34Speaker 3: It's just a pattern.
- 4:35Speaker 4: So it's my theory and nobody has proven.
- 4:39Speaker 3: Me wrong yet. But if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. Yeah.
- 4:43Speaker 1: And so you think that President Trump's idea of maybe
- 4:47Speaker 1: a shadow fed chair came from AI.
- 4:49Speaker 4: Uh, very possible, or it might have come from somebody else,
- 4:54Speaker 4: and then run through the AI to see if it
- 4:57Speaker 4: could in fact be accomplished, and you know it'll run
- 5:03Speaker 4: itself out. I know for sure for legal strategy, it's happening.
- 5:07Speaker 4: I can see it there. We've never seen cases go
- 5:12Speaker 4: to the Supreme Court. He's only been in power five
- 5:16Speaker 4: months and yet three or four cases have already hit
- 5:20Speaker 4: the Supreme Court and been decided.
- 5:23Speaker 3: And that's just something. As a follower, as an.
- 5:26Speaker 4: Attorney, recovering attorney, I've never seen anything like where Supreme
- 5:31Speaker 4: Court taking cases on an emergency basis the way they have.
- 5:36Speaker 1: That's right, And look part of this is traditional Trump fashion.
- 5:42Speaker 1: President Trump likes to move quickly and he makes a
- 5:45Speaker 1: lot of moves at any given time, so a lot
- 5:47Speaker 1: of his presidency has a lot of unprecedented moves, including
- 5:52Speaker 1: the potential appointment of a shadow FED chair before Jerome
- 5:57Speaker 1: Powell's appointment is up May in May twenty twenty six.
- 6:02Speaker 1: But look, the reality is that President Trumps hasn't made
- 6:06Speaker 1: it a secret that he is frustrated at your own
- 6:09Speaker 1: Powell being slow to lower the interest rates. And look,
- 6:13Speaker 1: something to keep in mind is the Fed has a
- 6:15Speaker 1: tough job to balance between economic growth as well as inflation.
- 6:22Speaker 1: And as a core component of this employment because the
- 6:27Speaker 1: reverse to the challenge is that low interest rates will
- 6:32Speaker 1: spur economic growth, which is good. But what happens with
- 6:35Speaker 1: economic growth is most of the time it will also
- 6:38Speaker 1: lead to inflation. And that's one of the core pieces
- 6:42Speaker 1: of the mandate of the Fed is to also control inflation.
- 6:46Speaker 1: So many times it becomes very difficult between finding the
- 6:49Speaker 1: balance of lower interest rates to spur economic growth, which
- 6:52Speaker 1: is something that President Trump has made no secret about
- 6:55Speaker 1: the fact that he's an avid supporter of and I
- 6:58Speaker 1: think he believes that he wants it to be a
- 7:00Speaker 1: core part of his legacy. So it's balancing that while
- 7:05Speaker 1: still also tempering inflation. And so President Trump seems to
- 7:10Speaker 1: make a lot of decisions from the gut, as he
- 7:12Speaker 1: has as a businessman, and Jerome Powell is much more
- 7:15Speaker 1: by the books, by the data, and he's very cautious
- 7:18Speaker 1: about the moves he makes. And I think that's the
- 7:21Speaker 1: dichotomy and the just the position that we're seeing between
- 7:24Speaker 1: these two people.
- 7:25Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, for sure, he doesn't have an easy job
- 7:28Speaker 4: Jerome Powell, for sure. And the inflation, yes, definitely a factor. Well,
- 7:37Speaker 4: what do you think of DOGE though, as far as
- 7:39Speaker 4: bringing down the federal deficit and perhaps bringing that under control.
- 7:47Speaker 1: Well, I would look to the head of DOGE, which
- 7:51Speaker 1: was once Elon Musk and him no longer being involved
- 7:55Speaker 1: in DOGE and then simultaneously now criticizing President Trump's latest bill,
- 8:01Speaker 1: and he's criticized both sides.
- 8:04Speaker 3: And so this is.
- 8:04Speaker 1: Why Elon Musk has said that he wants to form
- 8:08Speaker 1: a third party is because the challenge I think Elon
- 8:12Speaker 1: Musk is faced and seen firsthand from being involved INDULGE
- 8:16Speaker 1: is it's seemingly impossible with the way government is structured
- 8:20Speaker 1: to really get the balance or the debt in control
- 8:25Speaker 1: and balance because of the way the government spends money
- 8:28Speaker 1: in both sides vying for control, in favoritism amongst their lobbyists.
- 8:35Speaker 1: And that's the big challenge here, is that everybody is
- 8:38Speaker 1: looking to short term rather than looking at what's best
- 8:42Speaker 1: for the long term future of America.
- 8:45Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, interest rates, well, they might be
- 8:47Speaker 4: higher than zero percent where they were a couple of
- 8:51Speaker 4: years ago, are probably right around where they should be
- 8:55Speaker 4: on a normalized basis prior to the Great Financial Crisis
- 9:01Speaker 4: which set off all these negative interest rates. You don't
- 9:05Speaker 4: really want negative interest rates, negative real interest rates. It's
- 9:09Speaker 4: unhealthy for the economy. And somebody's got to buy these treasuries, right.
- 9:16Speaker 3: That's right.
- 9:17Speaker 1: And so what a lot of people don't realize is
- 9:19Speaker 1: there's the balance between the monetary policy, the buying and
- 9:23Speaker 1: selling of bonds to control the money supply in the economy,
- 9:27Speaker 1: as well as fiscal policy in terms of how a
- 9:29Speaker 1: government is spending money. And ideally those really should be
- 9:33Speaker 1: balanced against each other, but typically many times, unfortunately they
- 9:38Speaker 1: kind of go their separate ways and each side is
- 9:42Speaker 1: kind of doing what they believe is best without necessarily
- 9:45Speaker 1: looking at what's best for America as a whole, because look, ultimately,
- 9:50Speaker 1: monetary policy and fiscal policy are each wings to a bird,
- 9:54Speaker 1: and you need both for the economy to be able
- 9:57Speaker 1: to soar. And it is interesting that unfortunately the US government,
- 10:03Speaker 1: whether it's under Democratic party rule or Republican Party rule,
- 10:09Speaker 1: is still spending far more than it should be and
- 10:14Speaker 1: not really accounting for how it's going to reduce the debt,
- 10:19Speaker 1: because some amount of debt is good, but an excessive
- 10:21Speaker 1: amount of debt is really really bad.
- 10:23Speaker 4: Yeah, and all lower interest rates do is increased debt.
- 10:27Speaker 4: As we know, you know, there's some interesting cases I
- 10:30Speaker 4: think that we'll be coming up this term. First and
- 10:33Speaker 4: foremost is the Impoundment Control Act of nineteen seventy four,
- 10:38Speaker 4: which basically said that if Congress allocates the money, if
- 10:43Speaker 4: they say it's getting spent, then it's getting spent, no
- 10:47Speaker 4: matter how absurd the program might be. And that really
- 10:52Speaker 4: wasn't the way that the Constitution was designed. Presidents had
- 10:57Speaker 4: impoundment authority up until you know, fifty years ago. And
- 11:03Speaker 4: now he wants it back, and I believe he's going
- 11:08Speaker 4: to get it. I believe the case is coming and
- 11:11Speaker 4: it's just it'll probably come up this term in one
- 11:14Speaker 4: way or another.
- 11:15Speaker 1: That's right carried it. Unfortunately, this use it or lose
- 11:18Speaker 1: it type financing with Congress and the allocation of funds
- 11:21Speaker 1: is something we typically see throughout the government, and the
- 11:25Speaker 1: challenge is balancing the two. For example, I worked for
- 11:29Speaker 1: a summer in private consulting where the consulting company did
- 11:34Speaker 1: consulting for veterans' affairs, which I'm an avid believer in
- 11:37Speaker 1: that we should be taking care of our veterans, caring
- 11:39Speaker 1: for war years. And unfortunately, regardless of which department you're in,
- 11:45Speaker 1: there is a competitive eating process, and part of it,
- 11:47Speaker 1: regardless of which agency it is, they do look at
- 11:51Speaker 1: the prior year's budget and whether it was fully allocated,
- 11:55Speaker 1: and many times if it wasn't, what will happen is
- 11:58Speaker 1: the government will take back that money and reallocate it.
- 12:01Speaker 1: So it does create this perverse incentive to spend spend
- 12:05Speaker 1: because the challenge and the risk is, for example, let's
- 12:08Speaker 1: say you don't necessarily need all those funds this year, Well,
- 12:12Speaker 1: if you don't use them, what might happen is if
- 12:14Speaker 1: you need them the following year, they might not be
- 12:17Speaker 1: available for distribution. And that's the biggest challenge here is
- 12:21Speaker 1: that therefore, unfortunately, it fuels this never ending spending cycle,
- 12:28Speaker 1: which with each agency trying to max out their budgets
- 12:31Speaker 1: year after year.
- 12:33Speaker 4: Yeah, and for an example of the absurd things they
- 12:36Speaker 4: could do, put this in an article. If Congress decides
- 12:41Speaker 4: that they're going to have a tomb for the faceless bureaucrat,
- 12:49Speaker 4: all right, like we have the tumb of the unknown soldiers,
- 12:52Speaker 4: so we have one with a tumb for the faceless bureaucrat,
- 12:56Speaker 4: and they're going to fund it. They're going to have
- 12:59Speaker 4: a bond are running twenty four to seven, and the
- 13:04Speaker 4: bonfire will be fed with freshly printed one hundred dollars
- 13:08Speaker 4: bills from the Federal Reserve. All the president can do
- 13:12Speaker 4: under the current state of the law is like the match.
- 13:16Speaker 4: He really has no ability to actually rein in this
- 13:20Speaker 4: insane spending. And I mean, this is like absurd. You know,
- 13:24Speaker 4: they're I don't think they're going to do it, but
- 13:26Speaker 4: I wouldn't put it past them because we've seen from
- 13:30Speaker 4: Doge the types of insane things they're spending money on.
- 13:34Speaker 3: That's right.
- 13:35Speaker 1: Well, President Trump is in sort of a unique and
- 13:39Speaker 1: special situation, which is where he's the president of the
- 13:43Speaker 1: Republican Party, as well as having the Republican Party control
- 13:48Speaker 1: both the Senate and the House. So in terms of
- 13:52Speaker 1: the best chances of being able to get some sort
- 13:54Speaker 1: of cooperation from the two portions and segments of the
- 14:00Speaker 1: US Congress, both the Senate and the House of Representatives,
- 14:03Speaker 1: President Trump has a unique advantage in being able to
- 14:06Speaker 1: do that. And we've still seen the dysfunction that goes
- 14:10Speaker 1: on between the executive branch and the legislative branch, including
- 14:15Speaker 1: in terms of how policies are supposed to be put
- 14:19Speaker 1: forth and how spending is supposed to occur, including with
- 14:22Speaker 1: this latest spending bill. With President Trump.
- 14:24Speaker 4: Yeah, so, and still getting the Congress to do things,
- 14:29Speaker 4: it's like herding cats.
- 14:31Speaker 3: That's right.
- 14:32Speaker 1: And you know part of this is I've joked with
- 14:35Speaker 1: friends that if members of the government were treated the
- 14:39Speaker 1: same way as we are in the private sector, which
- 14:41Speaker 1: is you're going to get paid and get raises for
- 14:43Speaker 1: your results, and if you don't do your job, you're
- 14:46Speaker 1: going to get fired, I think we'd have a lot
- 14:49Speaker 1: less dysfunction on Capitol Hill and in Washington, DC.
- 14:54Speaker 4: And that's probably another case that's coming up in this
- 14:57Speaker 4: term that we don't know about yet, but basically the
- 15:02Speaker 4: ability to reschedule all these employees under Section F and
- 15:08Speaker 4: then get rid of them as needed. You know, the
- 15:13Speaker 4: government is seriously out of step with technology, with modern
- 15:18Speaker 4: economics and the world for that matter, and he's trying
- 15:23Speaker 4: to bring the government up to date here and as expected,
- 15:29Speaker 4: getting resistance from all parties.
- 15:32Speaker 1: That's right. Unfortunately, what we're saying is the effects of complacency. Unfortunately,
- 15:37Speaker 1: many government employees and parts of government have become very
- 15:41Speaker 1: complacent with America's place in the world economy. But the
- 15:44Speaker 1: reality is they've been gifted that privilege by the people
- 15:47Speaker 1: before them who did all the work to make America
- 15:50Speaker 1: the great country that it is. And unfortunately, we have
- 15:52Speaker 1: a lot of government employees who don't necessarily make it
- 15:57Speaker 1: their job to look at the advancement of the United States,
- 16:03Speaker 1: including things like AI, which is going to be a
- 16:05Speaker 1: major part of the future, and understanding it. I mean,
- 16:09Speaker 1: we've seen this Carrie with some of the hearings even
- 16:11Speaker 1: relating to for example, Facebook or social media, where the
- 16:16Speaker 1: questions from the various senators re laughable in terms of
- 16:19Speaker 1: the types of questions they were asking shown showed a fundamental,
- 16:24Speaker 1: in complete misunderstanding as to how technology works, how social
- 16:28Speaker 1: media platforms work, and what they're able to do. And
- 16:32Speaker 1: it's not just the social media hearings. Anytime we have
- 16:34Speaker 1: a hearing relating to technology, we see this over and
- 16:39Speaker 1: over again, where we have congress people, government employees who
- 16:43Speaker 1: don't understand fundamentally most parts of the technology, if any
- 16:48Speaker 1: part of the technology.
- 16:50Speaker 4: Yeah, well they think they still think email and texting
- 16:53Speaker 4: are major innovations, and we're way past that now.
- 16:58Speaker 3: But the AI.
- 17:00Speaker 4: Doge forget about the optics of musk leaving and all that.
- 17:06Speaker 4: That is a permanent fixture now of the government, and
- 17:11Speaker 4: I think we're going to see it spread to state
- 17:13Speaker 4: and local governments as well, and internationally to the UN
- 17:19Speaker 4: and countries around the world, because every country is basically
- 17:24Speaker 4: the way they spend is modeled after the US to
- 17:28Speaker 4: some extent. They're all running deficits, They've all over promised
- 17:33Speaker 4: and at some point they're going to have to underdeliver
- 17:36Speaker 4: and there's really no way out. The only thing that
- 17:39Speaker 4: can kind of contain this is AI.
- 17:43Speaker 1: Well, that's right, and unfortunately, many times government is a
- 17:46Speaker 1: repeated series of under delivery, and unfortunately, what happens is
- 17:51Speaker 1: politicians then just point the fingers at each other and
- 17:54Speaker 1: don't take full responsibility for what happened or try to
- 17:58Speaker 1: fix it, so unfortunately becomes a blame game. So the
- 18:03Speaker 1: reality is, if US households ran their budgets the way
- 18:08Speaker 1: the US government is currently running their budgets, regardless of
- 18:14Speaker 1: whether it's Republican or Democrat controlled, the reality is you
- 18:18Speaker 1: cannot run a household even if you drop a bunch
- 18:23Speaker 1: of the numbers and reduce them to ones that we
- 18:26Speaker 1: could all make sense of. For example, if we've got
- 18:29Speaker 1: a median household income of let's say sixty thousand dollars
- 18:33Speaker 1: and allocating those funds between groceries, insurance taxes, food, those
- 18:41Speaker 1: various things, you would be running an astronomical deficit to
- 18:46Speaker 1: the point where you'd never be able to pay it off.
- 18:49Speaker 1: And unfortunately, because the numbers with the US deficit and
- 18:53Speaker 1: the budget are so large, it makes it very difficult
- 18:56Speaker 1: to really understand that. But I saw this one calculation
- 18:58Speaker 1: where if you look at those numbers and simply drop
- 19:01Speaker 1: off a bunch of the zeros, the vast majority of
- 19:03Speaker 1: those zeros, and make it into numbers that somebody can
- 19:06Speaker 1: actually understand and they're used to seeing. You'll see very
- 19:10Speaker 1: quickly how problematic this is in terms of actually being
- 19:14Speaker 1: able to pay it off.
- 19:15Speaker 4: Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. So, what do
- 19:18Speaker 4: you think will be the net outcome? You think Powell
- 19:20Speaker 4: is out?
- 19:21Speaker 1: Well, I think that there's almost no doubt that Palell's
- 19:24Speaker 1: going to be out when his time is up, and
- 19:28Speaker 1: he's realistically not going to be reappointed. President Trump has
- 19:32Speaker 1: really made no secret about that, and I think President
- 19:34Speaker 1: Trump would fire him if he could, but he can't.
- 19:36Speaker 1: So this is why he's doing what he believes is
- 19:39Speaker 1: the next best thing and looking at shadow fed chairs
- 19:42Speaker 1: to be able to say, here's my next fedchair pick.
- 19:46Speaker 4: All right, well we're gonna sit back, wait and see
- 19:50Speaker 4: what happens. Just tell us again, how we connect with
- 19:52Speaker 4: you on the web, how we find out more about you?
- 19:55Speaker 1: He Garry Yes, on Instagram, on parrague PA r ag A,
- 19:59Speaker 1: me A, M I n E s Q. And on
- 20:03Speaker 1: the web. My website is www dot law p l
- 20:07Speaker 1: A dot com. Again, that's www dot law PLA dot com.
- 20:11Speaker 4: And the links in the show notes to this interview
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- 20:27Speaker 4: or just tell us what you think of this.
- 20:29Speaker 3: Do you think it's time for Powell to go?
- 20:32Speaker 4: Just shoot me an email, klatcarrieluts dot com.
- 20:36Speaker 3: Parag been a pleasure, Thanks for stopping by.
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